Cherry Meets Peter Pan

chapter 6

The Lost Boys sang themselves a marching song as they followed John. They passed a bunch of monkeys who took turns wearing John's hat before giving it back, unknown to him. They even passed by a bear who was confused of why a bear cub was with them and not with its mother. They even came across a rock, but the rock was actually a rhino who was eating hay while they traveled.

They then entered a field.

"Indians!" John called to the others as soon as they came across the field.

The boys, Nana, and Cherry all got into position to fight them. The Lost Boys made a battle fort, ready to fight.

"Belongs to the Algonquin group," John observed. "Quite savage, you know."

"Now what?" Chris asked.

"Uh, let's go get 'em!" one raccoon twin said.

"Yeah!" The second raccoon twin agreed.

"Gentlemen, gentlemen!" John called, taking charge, being the mature one. "First, we must plan our strategy."

"Yeah, blockheads." Pat glared slightly.

"So, what's a strategy?" the rabbit asked.

"A plan of attack," John explained. "The initial phase is an encircling maneuver, thus."

"Let's hope this plan won't be too complicated." Chris said.

Nana looked over to Michael and decided to make sure he would be okay. Michael saw a feather on the ground and bent down to pick it up as an axe was thrown to the tree, just missing him luckily enough.

"M-M-Michael, I don't think we're alone." Nana said in dog language, scared.

Michael put the feather in his hair. "Something wrong, Nana?"

Nana whimpered and looked worried. Michael took the axe out of the tree, then noticed the bush seemed weird. The dog and the little boy tried to avoid the bush as it somehow started to follow them. Nana started to growl at the bush, finding it suspicious.

Michael lifted the bush up to see feet underneath and he gasped, running off to warn the others. The Lost Boys and John were huddled together. Michael tried to get everyone's attention and warn them of the Indians. Nana tried to warn them as well even by tugging on the boy in fox outfit's tail. No one would pay them any attention though. Michael and Nana were then kidnapped suddenly as trees surrounded the group.

Therefore we simply surround them and take them by surprise." John concluded before they were suddenly attacked by the Indians.

Each of them were attacked by Indians.

"Oh, you want some of me?" Cherry taunted. "You want a piece of me? Come get me! Bring it on!"

Suddenly she was hit in the back of her head to knock her out.

"He brung it..." Cherry said in a daze before falling flat to the ground.

Each of boys, Cherry, and Nana were all then tied up and captured. Even Michael's teddy bear was a victim.

They were taken to the Indian camp and now tied to a stake together.

"I'm frightfully sorry, old chaps," John said to the others. "It's all my fault."

"No, it's not, John; you're a great leader." Chris smiled.

"So brave..." Pat added with a lazy smile.

"Yeah, that's all right, Wildcat." Cubby added.

"Yeah, we don't mind." the fox smiled innocently.

"It's okay." the rabbit added in.

"Ugh... My head..." Cherry groaned.

"You're finally awake." Pat said.

"How long was I out?" Cherry groaned, feeling the world's worst headache.

The Indian Chief walked over and raised his hand. "How."

"How, Chief, How!" the others greeted back, nervously.

"Oh, why couldn't it have been Chief Powhatan?" Cherry frowned.

"He must be part of a different tribe." Chris said.

"For many moons red man fight paleface Lost Boys," the Chief looked to the group held in his camp. "Sometime you win, sometime, we win..." he then looked to Cherry curiously. "She not paleface..."

"She's new around here along with a friend of hers, which is with Peter and Wendy." Chris said.

"Anyway, Chief, you win this time, so turn us loose." Cubby requested.

"'Turn us loose'?" John repeated in confusion. "You mean this is only a game?"

"Sure, when we win, we turn them loose." the fox explained.

"And when they win, they turn us loose." the raccoon twins added.

"Ohh." Cherry said, understanding.

"This time, no turn 'em loose." the Chief said then.

"Huh?" the others asked.

The fox chuckled. "The Chief''s a great spoofer."

"Me no spoof 'em," the Chief replied. "Where you hide Princess Tigerlily?"

"Tigerlily?" The Lost Boys, John, Michael, Cherry, and Nana asked confused.

"We ain't got your old princess!" the fox glared.

"We've never seen her." John said, referring to himself and Cherry.

"Me neither." one of the raccoon twins added.

"Honestly, we haven't." the rabbit replied.

"Heap big lie," the Chief glared to his victims. "If Tigerlily not back by sunset... Burn 'em at stake."

This caused for Cherry to gulp.